Topic: BLOGLIFE - on January 16, 2004 at 2:03:00 PM CET
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Language tools for fight on terror
Terror babelfish
Software to allow security officials to better search and translate documents in foreign languages, especially Arabic, has been demonstrated at a technology show in Las Vegas, as Clark Boyd reports. There is an old saying in computing - garbage in, garbage out. And never has the world been so awash in digital garbage.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:32:00 PM CET
UK launches first digital stamps
The Royal Mail is launching the UK's first digital stamp, a service aimed at small firms.
The system, called SmartStamp, allows users to print stamps straight onto envelopes from their computers.
It means they can ditch the traditional stamp for an image of their choice, such as a company logo.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:31:00 PM CET
US illegal downloads on the rise
The number of people illegally downloading copyrighted tracks from the internet has risen after a six-month slump, analysts in the US have said.
The number of US households downloading tracks from sites rise 6% in October and 7% in November, market researchers the NPD Group said on Thursday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CET
Intel and HP find oldest working PC
Dutch company PHI DATA yesterday received a € 18,000 prize from Intel, HP and Dutch IT weekly Computable for still owning and operating a vintage IBM 5160 (Intel 8088) computer from 1983. PHI Data uses the IBM to test matrix printers. It is now officialy the oldest obsolete-yet-active PC in the Low Countries.
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Topic: NASA - on January 16, 2004 at 1:20:00 PM CET
Mars Mission a Trojan Horse?
President Bush's plan to go to the moon and to Mars without much additional funding will force NASA and Congress to make hard choices -- particularly regarding the space shuttle and the hugely expensive International Space Station, observers said.
The Bush plan increases NASA's budget by just $1 billion over the next five years. That means the space agency has to figure out how to carry out the mission -- first a return to the moon and later a trip to Mars -- without a lot of additional money in its budget.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 16, 2004 at 1:02:00 PM CET
SageGlass® Explained
Because the concept of electronically tintable glass is so new, and because there are a number of very different "switchable" technologies being developed right now, there is sometimes confusion regarding what SageGlass® technology is and what it can or cannot do. The following information is intended to clarify possible misconceptions surrounding switchable glass technologies, and SageGlass® electrochromic technology specifically.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 16, 2004 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Origamic architecture and Escher
Some say that Origamic Architecture is a part of Origami and some say it is not. So one is divided about this issue. This confusion arises because the folding part is essential in making an Origamic Architecture card; by folding, one models a card into shape. However, when a card is made it is primarily done by cutting. Masahiro Chatani consequently calls his books Origamic Architecture.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 16, 2004 at 11:17:00 AM CET
Data Glass2
Data Glass2, Data (information and the data) with Glass (the glasses) to keyword to be named, "age the person who precedes when and attaching Data Glass2 where is possible the fact that you look at image and information,", "the personal computer anytime also anywhere" the small-sized stemma head mount display for ウェアラブルパソコン which develops in concept (HMD) is.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 16, 2004 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Vehicles slam into woman's house twice in just over a month
In just over a month, Sarah Stern's life of solitude was shattered twice _ when separate vehicles slammed into her corner house. For more than two decades, Stern lived here quietly. But that streak came to a screeching halt when a car and a truck crashed into her house within 32 days.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 16, 2004 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Ecstacy: end of the affair
One pill now costs about the same as a pint of beer - and is almost as easy to get hold of. But the youth of Britain is starting to turn its back on ecstasy. Leo Benedictus on how the drug of the 90s fell from favour.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 16, 2004 at 10:48:00 AM CET
Grow operations
The "big box" marijuana growing operation found in the former Molson brewery in Barrie, Ont., was the largest and most sophisticated in Canadian history, police said.
30,000 Estimated number of plants
$30 million Estimated street value of the plants found
$100 million Estimated worth of the annual crop, based on four crops a year
1,000 Number of growing lamps
25 Number of beer vats converted to incubation chambers for the seedlings
6,000 Size of the growing facility, in square metres, about half of the entire building
50 Number of people who could be housed in the on-site dormitory
9 Number of people arrested in the raid
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